LABOUR DISPUTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1438, 13 May 1912, Page 5

LABOUR DISPUTES.

» . FATAL STRIKE RIOTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. New York, May 11. The coal miners on strike at Scranton, Pennsylvania, broke the police cordon surrounding the strike-breakers. They misshnndled many of the latter, at whom they flung bricks and attacked with clubs in a fierce melee lasting half an hour. Several of the strikers received fatal injuries. The troops finally came to the policemen's rescue. Women took a prominent part in the attacks on the police, and six women were arrested. The disturbances were chiefly fomented by the foreign element among tho coal workers. BRITISH MINING UNREST. WELSH ATTITUDE. (Rec. May 12, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 11. A small majority of the South Wales Miners' Executive has rejected Mr. Stanton's demand, for a national stoppage, to include the railway men and transport workers, and the proposal that the Labour party should obstruct all Parliamentary business until a living wage was included in an Act of Parliament, and royalties abolished.. The South Wales Federation has confirmed the executive's recommendation to abstain from the District Board, pending tho conference of the Miners Federation of Britain on May 21. The newspapers recall that Clause i of the Minimum Wage Act allows Lord St. Aldwyn to fix a minimum wage independently if the miners refuse to I>e represented. TAILORS RESUMING WORK. London, May 11. Twenty-eight firms have signed the London Tailors' Society's agreement. Hundreds of the strikers have now resumed work. VIOLENCE IN MONTREAL. (Rec. May 12, 5.5 p.m.) Ottawa, May 11. The Jewish bakers of Montreal have struck. , There have been many acts of , violence against the masters, two of whom were beaten in the streets, and the wife of one knocked senseless. NEWSPAPER STRIKE. (Rec. May 12, 5.5 p.m.) New York, May 11. The employees of the newspapers who are on strike, are attacking the news boys for selling papers issued by non-union workers. There have been many arrests. (Rec. May 13, 0.30 a.m.) New York, May 12. The pressmen on several newspapers in San Francisco have walked out, in sympathy with the Chicago strike, and the issue of the papers has been restricted. .-, DOCK LABOURERS' WAGES. Melbourne, May 11. Over a hundred dock labourers have struck owing to the refusal of their demand for an increase of wages from 16. Id. to Is. sd. an hour. A "BEER STRIKE." Adelaide, May 11. Unionists at Port Pirio have declared a "beer strike," as tho result of the publicans raising the price of drinks. MINERS' FEDERATION. (Rec. May 13, 0.30 a.m.) Melbourne, May 12. The State coal miners at Wonthaggi have taken a ballot, which has resulted in favour of linking up with the New Zealand miners, by 3G3 votes to 0. WONTHAGGI STRIKE OVER. Melbourne, May 11. The strike at the State coal mine at Wonthaggi has been settled by mutual concessions.